We used gingerbread houses to create open & closed syllables. #soarlikeahawk #wsdlearns #imse

How Handwriting Supports the Science of Reading #soc ⁦Voyager Sopris⁩ voyagersopris.com/podcast/2022/h…

This ‘Pound & Tap’ encoding resource from Institute for Multi-Sensory Education helps Ss learn a routine to sound out word parts. The visual is so interactive & fun! #wsdlearns #soarlikeahawk #sor

#WeAreWentzville Liberty Edition 🦅 ❤️🤍💙

Learning about the power of YET! Readers think about their strengths and what is tricky about reading. They build their reading life around books, authors and topics they want to read! #WeAreWentzville

We have begun to unlock our Sound Wall! We review by: listening to sounds, sorting objects, using mirrors for mouth formation & writing letters in the sand to match each sound. #WeAreWentzville

What do you do when you have a visitor stop by? You have them play laser tag with the sound wall! Thank you @DrTormalaWSD for showing off your skills with the 4th grade group today! #WeAreWentzville

The letter ‘y’ is a chameleon. We learned that the position of the letter ‘y’ changes its sound. #wsdlearns #imseog

Tap it! Map it! Zap it! We listen to sounds in words & write the sounds we hear. #wsdlearns Mark Weakland Tools 4 Reading

Nonfiction readers teach each other about topics they study. Readers remember the main idea & details of a NF text by recording their thinking. #wsdlearns

Learning to read involves hearing the discrete sounds in words, associating sounds with letters, encoding (spelling) & decoding (reading) patterns to form words that have meaning - teachers like Jolene Moser and others are on it!

Stephen King’s 10 writing rules that’ll make you a better writer than 12 years of English class:

Ready for our late professional development & collaboration! Focus: phonemic awareness, decoding & encoding small groups! Prairie View Elem #wsdlearns #wearewentzville

Nonfiction readers prepare to teach about their topic by sketching their learning #wsdlearns

Stop & jots help readers capture their thinking & understanding of a text. #wsdlearns

Writers edit their spelling by mapping out sounds in words. #wsdlearns Prairie View Elem

It’s an intense game of Candy Land with blends! #wearewentzville #wsdlearns

The reading interventionist Wentzville Schools are super pumped to start using our 95percentgroup interventions with students! #scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #everychildreads #wearewentzville

2nd graders blasted off into reading! #wearewentzville

Readers reviewed the silent-e syllable type with our new 95percentgroup chip kit! #wearewentzville